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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 22h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Char @kiwichar.bsky.social · 23h

“They don’t fear disorder…they fear unity.”

Never a truer statement for our times.
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #NewZealand

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 5h

Now this is a clear rejection! Thank you MIT

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 6h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 5h

GOOD!

MIT officially rejects the compact/loyalty oath for higher ed. That’s 1 of 9. I hope we see many more announcements today.

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 6h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 5h

"Jane Goodall showed that science can be both rigorous and compassionate. Her work made it possible for people like me to pursue this career, and her example continues to inspire not only scientists but the public at large." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Meet the ASU professor who oversees Jane Goodall's research archive

"Jane Goodall showed that science can be both rigorous and compassionate," said Ian Gilby, a professor at Arizona State University.

www.azcentral.com

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 5h

While airing your pet peeve *at* someone was rude, you made it much worse by standing on that hill and declaring that you were right and everyone else was wrong, even the language experts.

With that context, all those "nuh uh" statements just make you seem even more like a big jerk.

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Jeremy Bradley @jeremue.bsky.social · 1d

That's what I'm doing right now. When you're being told by hosts of actual linguists, people who work with language and its role in society professionally, that your behavior here was problematic, it might make sense to take a step back and consider if this is actually a role you want to play.

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Jeremy Bradley @jeremue.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's exactly the issue: if you give this kind of unsolicited advice, you are positioning yourself hierarchically. The appropriate context for corrections of this type is between parents and children, teachers and students: i.e. hierarchical relationships.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

ah, I hadn't realised you were calling Iris cringey! that changes everything! 🤨

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Spooky Ana 🤘👩🏻‍🎨 @anageorge.art · 20h

“You accidentally made a sexual innuendo”? Absolutely tell me.

“You violated a grammar rule that most native speakers on the street could ostensibly make themselves”? Miss me with that.

/rant

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Spooky Ana 🤘👩🏻‍🎨 @anageorge.art · 20h

“If I were speaking a second language I’d want someone to tell me”

Respectfully, as someone who grew up in a multilingual family, things like this are so nitpicky that they almost become a microaggression against the non-native speaker.

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Spooky Ana 🤘👩🏻‍🎨 @anageorge.art · 20h

As someone just popping into this thread and who has an almost pathological dislike of grammar policing, I’ve always taken the stance that if you can otherwise clearly understand what the speaker meant then who the hell cares what’s “proper” or not? It’s ultimately unsolicited advice.

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 6h

If you're gonna be a pretentious jerk about the English Language, you should be prepared to have criticism lofted back at you in return.

It is not surprising that people didn't like your tone policing, nor that you felt a strong desire to die on that hill, nor that you have a thin skin.

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 6h

On-again, off-again with your favorite gene? Maybe some new plasmids are just what your experiment needs! Check out our recently updated Tetracycline Inducible Expression collection page!
🧬: https://twp.ai/4is3BR

A series of schematics, each with one illustration of the system without tetracycline (or dox) and one with tetracycline present. Left (TetR): without tetracycline, the TetR protein binds to DNA at the tetO site and transcription of the downstream gene is blocked; with tetracycline bound, TetR releases from the DNA and transcription occurs. Center (Tet-Off): without tetracycline, the tTA binds to DNA at the TRE and enhances transcription of the downstream gene; with tetracycline bound, tTA releases from the TRE and transcription halts. Right (Tet-On): without tetracycline, the rtTA does not bind to the TRE and transcription halts; with tetracycline bound, rtTA binds the TRE and enhances transcription of the downstream gene.

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 8h

Not just a typo; there was also clear grammatical carelessness.

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 10h

Vote first thing tomorrow, & take it to a ballot box near you
I Voted for people to protect parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, recycling, kind & connected communities, public transport, social housing, cycle trails, green spaces, public ownership of water & services, disability action & Māori Wards

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 8h

I'm impressed and pleased about the accent and language work that was done for this video.

Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 11h

They did one for New Zealand and I actually learned something that I didn't know specifically the prime minister apparently wasted a significant amount of government money having a pavlova on a mountaintop WTF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
#NZpol #NewZeland

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 11h

They did one for New Zealand and I actually learned something that I didn't know specifically the prime minister apparently wasted a significant amount of government money having a pavlova on a mountaintop WTF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
#NZpol #NewZeland

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 11h

The passing of the RSB will put disabled people and maori into direct danger of being killed because of inefficiency to capital, this is not an exaggeration #nzpol

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 9h

Surely you mean, "by direct translation, in which case an fyi from *a* native speaker seems ok."

> I don't think these constructions would normally be called "sentences".

english.stackexchange.com/questions/19...

Starting a sentence with "In which"

I sometimes see sentences that begin with "In which", but I can't seem to understand the meaning, e.g.: In which James demonstrates the presentation he's been working on. Is this grammatically co...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11h

If somebody called me racist or sexist I'd really think deeply if I respected them, so it's also obvious there was no respect here towards you as a conversant

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 11h

Man alive look at his replies, clearly saying it’s discriminatory and misogynistic poked a wound & made the veil of 🧐 intellectual discussion 🧐 fall apart lmao. Shan’t we be surprised just once?

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Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a linguist. Can I just say: prescriptivism is yuck.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

correcting people's english is anti-english language, which thrives on random stuff here and there, yup! this is why UK english especially has no governing body... we're vibing, join us!

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · May 19

No, it's correct English too, Iris.

This is a dated and pedantic rule that should only be considered when arguing with a paid copy editor over house style, if then.

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